The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 30, 1910, Image 3

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gMI HHjl 1 wi|^pgjWM?yguLiiJMiM ?p ?? aOSES SESSION kmstifaliif CMnuttec Appwrtcd By V Baih Bwim <t Lut Bmt. GRAVE ACCUSATIONS 8p?Ak?r and Vice President Appoint Oommitteat to Go Into An Alleged Attempt to Bribe Senator Gore of Oklahoma.?Payne Ksti mates H* 000,000 Ha* Been Saved. Bach house of congress Saturday night marked its closing hours by voting for an investigation of the McMurray Indian contracts. Instead of the usual scene of comparatively undignified relaxation from the busi~ - M 1 ^ b'^iW k AUUAU /l<i D6B8 OI IVS1MHI.IVU, uvvu uvu>>v> voted exceedingly serious attention to tbe charges of attempted brLbery and other forms of improper influence made In the senate Friday by 7?-"* Senator Gore of Oklahoma and subsequently in the house by Representative Murphy of Missouri. Two seperate Investigations are provided for?one in each house. Bach body passed a resolution creating' a select committee of Ave members to pursue the ' inquiry' to the bottom during recess of congress and to report whether any of its members are, or have been, interested in any of these contracts. Until a late hour in the day it looked rather as if t?e matter would go by default. But as soon as the two houses reoonveyed at 9 o'clock That night., after a recess since afternoon, the matter came up with a rush, and crowded galleries listened with intense intej-eet to the proceedings, v*hich ended in the vote to probe the charges. Vice-President Sherman announced the following committee to conduct the senate investigationSenators -/ones of Washington; Durton of Ohio, Crawford of South Dakota, Hughes of Colorado, and Perry of Mississippi. Senator Hughes in presenting his investigation resolution stated that Senator Gore's accusations were so grave that they couid not be ignor ed. The resolution was adopted without opposition. It is as follows: "Resolved* That a committee of five, to be appoiuted by the chair, be and- it is hereby, directed' to investigate and report whether any senator of the United States is or during his term of office has been interested or called with or connected with legislation affecting the approval of Indian contracts or has done anything because of said interest and whether any improper attempts or efforts to prevent or to secure a statute affecting the approval of Indian contracts have .been made at this session of congress; and said committee is authorized to sit and proceed in the vacation. The house adopted a substitute resolution, offered by Mr. Tawney (Minn.), creating a committee of five to investigate the contracts with the Choctaw, Chlcksaw- and Osage tribes, the inquiry to embrace any acts of bribery, fraud, or any other jmpro)>er influence. The committee iirli.m ?Miri ft Uif oil 10 W tl IV iVO I C|/WI ia n uvu vwu<(r>vw?i with tho cleric of the house, liillion Dollar Session. The final figures on the appropriations made at the second session of the sixty-first congress, just closed, analyzed from both the Republican ? and Democratic standpoint, will be given out by the house appropriations committee. Chairman Tawney, of the commit- , tee, claims tho aggregate is less thau a billion dollars, while Democratic leaders charge an excess of that limit. The statements have been delayed because of the latness of the final action on important supply measures. Mr. Sultzer, of New York, Demo- . crat, charges that it has been a bil- j and millions more with a ven-/ < afid millions more with a vengeance." , dL..... Mr. Tawney claims *hat the appropriations for the fis. 4I year 191.1 ' are less than for the current year and that most of the bills are less than the estimates submitted for them. Republican Leader Payne - - 1 J ? 'At... ...... 1.^...??inttmtti rj ro 1 COilU!II(IB 1>IIHI IUC ap|IIU|fi iiiuuiio ?<u a substantial reduction from those ' of last year without taking into ac- j count at all any Increase accruing ' from the increased business in the ( , country. ? ' Mr. Payne declares that while the 1 appropriation and expenditures for ; the current fiscal year are much lur* ( ger than that for the last fiscal year, \ $4,000,000 has so far been saved by * cutting down administration expen- * .ces. Mr. Payne concedes that many millions could be saved if one great business man had the country's * " ' * 1 1 ?" 1 ? Ul? /.Unenp/^ 1. WQOiO DUHluemt IU urn r ? | Workmen Found Jars of Gold. ( The discovery of ten earthen jars I by workmen while excavating on the v site of the old Carmne Convent, near t Puebla, Mex., has created quite a 1 stir in the republic. It is claimed 1 the Jars contained $500,000 which * the law requires should be paid in- t to the treasury* but the workmen if have disappeared with their gold. ]i WAR IN CHINATOWN AS A RKSl'LT TWO CKUCSTIAJLS WIUL? UKKLV DIK. Another h Shot Through Thigh and Seven Are Arretted After the Banquet Procwlw. The furtive tong war that sleeps, but never dies in spite of threats, promises and solemn treaties, broke out Sunday afternoon in Chinatown, in New York City. In ninety seconds three Chinamen were shot, two of them fatally, a third was painfully wouttded, and more than 4 0 shots were flred. Three minutes following, seven Chinamen had been arrested. It hannened that the L'.OOOtll ail niversary of the founding of the Society of Four Brothers fell on the clay of rest, and in its .honor the member^ Vere to give h banquet ill Pell street at five o'clock. A monster scarlet flag, scalloped in green, floated from the bauquet hall and guests began to arrive early from all parts of the city and even from neighboring towns. Sunday is market day for Chinamen. Then the streets are thickest with sightseers, and the chop suey restaurants thrive best and in remote back rooms the dice rattle faster and the dominoes click sharper. It was in the midst of this restless, shuffling throng, sown thick with policemen, that the shooting began. There Is no certainty of the precise provocation, but it is generally understood in Chinatown thaw the Ong Leong tong did not relish the fact that Chu Hen, recently acquitted of murder of an Ong Lecng tong man, was to be the 9nest of honor. The Hip Sing tong. the Ong Leong tongs and the Four Brothers occupy each their street, and no prudent member of one society trespasses on the territory of another. Pickets had been posted at the ends of Pel] street by the Four Brothers and scouts of the Ong Leong f -eg patrolled the adjacent boanuury of Mott street. There were more po ucemen on ine oeai vna*? u? i.t oowi because this was Sunday m ? because of the banquet. Somebody stepped over th ? line, somebody began to snoot. It :.s doubtful if any white man .rill ever know who tresspassed and wt* punished, because ill.? " >a o?* * i.l e*s t ante too fisr ? .??# i c u.aiiy directions at once for tL ? to ntUh the first flash. And no Chlnam t will ever tell. Son Chin, the inevitable. m^o'vut oystander, was the ?! . to fall shot thiough th<? abb>.!?- and he will die. Chu Foo was shot ?enind the ear and in the back and als ?vi!i die. Chu Pan was sh.v* hr eg*. the left thigh. His injuries are not serious. Thus far P. '*\s oeon impossible to learn whi-l 'i?ng t.: individuals wounded ?:C.tO;e. AP we in taken 'o hosp 'J nt; police made a vmuij'j f.?i everybody that ran but th< re were more honest fugitives than com oatants. and the doorways ar? u:?okor In Chinatown than burrows i ? rt*libit warren. Seven werj rough? some of whom the police snj they saw sho iting and others o.i v?'Uo\i rnlnll'ru'cj ttftTH tftiind HKFl'SKS TO l<!AT Has Fast? d Kowrtmi Days and Serins l>rtri'minr<I to Starve. VV. A. McGinnis, a white man who has been serving a \i mouths' setonce in the county jail for bigamy, according to the warden, has eaten no food' for a period of fourteen ilhys. The facts in the case beca'mo known tonight. A week ago the warden's attention was called to McGinnis' condition and I he county physician was summoned. lie made un examination md reported Uiut there was nothing the matter with the man's condition lie appears normal in ? very particular, and seems bent on starving himself to death. He even refuse's milk, jml has only taken two or three J rinks of water this week. Killed While With Wife. Samuel Lucas was shot from am)usJh and killed while walking with lis wfie late Wednesday nig.-c in Montgomery county and Kills Hoard fSlmcr Lillis, A. K. McGrody, Samuel Jlensby and R. I,. Maxev are in ail charged wit.h the crime. Lucai ind his wire wor?. returning nome ifter visiting a neighbor when Lu as was sliot through the .head. It s said Lucas had disputed a claim or money helci against his wife by 3oard. Plunges IKnvii the Mountain. L. .T. t\Tlller, of San Francisco, was [illed, and Richard Combs, of Little liver, Cal., Guy Red wine, of Ukiah, ?al., and Mr. and Mrs. Uoa, of \V<st>or*. Cal., injured Monday evening vhen the stage from Willetts to duir Junction ran away. The ?rakes gave way and the .heavy vo? ilcle plunged against the horses, ending them in a mad run down he mountain. The vehicle was iverturnod,Miller being pinned beleath and crushed to death. NO NEWTRIAL Jadge Rtfases Wife-larderer Jaaes Every GreradL NOTICE OF APPEAL In Ills Opinion Judge Gruber Says, Kvidonce Contuined in Affidavits1 I . I>ovj? Not Meet Itequireinents for Granting liehcuring.?The Decnt* ion Handed Down Saturday. A special dispatch from Union to The State says W. T. Jones has been refused a uew trial. I Special Judge W. B. Gruber, pre-j, siding in the circuit court for Union J county, Saturday afternoon handed down hla decision in the case, where-] in the defendant, convicted of the murder of his wife, Marion Jonc*, ; is denied the right to again present his defense to a jury of his peers. The application for a new trial, after the case had been heard by the supreme court and determined adversely to the defendant, is based! upon alleged misconduct of certain of the trial jurors and further upon allegations that material evidence' unknown to the defendant has been discovered 'since the trial of the case. Judge Gruber, in his decision, I which covers 12 typewritten pages,' reviews at some length the testimony j introduced by the state at the trial of the case, coining to the points at issue in the motion before him, the judge, alter reviewing the proceed ings before Judge Meinminger for a new trial in this case, holds that tae question as to the alleged misconduct of some of the trial jurors was passed upon by Judge Memminger and that this matter is, therefore, res adjudicata and that he has no power if he bad the inclination to consider this ground of that motion for a new trial. The second ground upon which the motion is based, that of after-discovered evidence, is fully considered in the decree. Judge Gruber points out that the after-discovered evi donee niUBt be material, and that it' could not have been discovered by the exercise of due dilligence before the trial. He then discussed the evidence contained in the affidavits submitted by the defendant in support of the! motion for a new trial unM holds' that it does not, in his opinion, meet the requirements; that he is not! convinced the defendant could not have discovered the evidence in time to use it at the trial. He points out, also, that some of the witnesses, whose testimony is alleged to be newly discovered, were bound over to attend the trial and, others lived on W. T. Jones places. The judge concludes by over-ruling the motion on both grounds. The' defendant's attorneys at once gave verbal notice of an appeal to the supreme court. VEHY OLI? itltllHiK. One In Southern France That is lfMMJ Veal's Old. In southern France there is a concrete bridge, known as the Pont tin I Gard, which was created in 5 6 H. C. The concrete employed in the building is not composed of crushed stone or other small aggregate of j the variety now used in such work, but was of the old style, consisting of alternate layers of large ami ? - ? small stones, gravel, etc., and of cementitious materials. Virtuvius describes the materials and methods in use before the Christian era as do other writers. It is very improbable that the Pont du Card would have withstood the rigors ol' our own climate for this length of time and its actual state of preservation, as well as that of many other specimens of ancient concrete wont proves that if modern work of this : kind is honestly executed it will , outlast the requirements of those \ !ivlng at the present time. ? KOUN1) I>KAD BY TBACK. Is Supposod to Have Been Struck 1 l>,\ Train. < I.cnnu Jackson was found dead * Sunday morning beside the railroad , track at a street crossing in Dillon. From the bruises on his body, it is i conjectured that he was struck by ? a southbound train during the night. The inquest was begun but adjurn- I for flirthor inuoaf limfinn In.il/ X'M ? -w ? ? ? 1/ (IV, i son was half-brother of Austin Hamilton, who conducts a livery stable 1 at Dillon, and was employed by him. t Jackson was about thirty years of > age and unmarried. t Hurt by Automobile. i George Heasley, a w.hite man, liv- 1 ing near Statesboro, was the victim > of a painful and serious accident ' as a result of a runaway, caused by a passing automobile. Mr. Heasley was thrown from his wagon and his skull was fractured. He was J brought to the sanitarium and is re- i ported to be improving. ( PRISONER A SUICIDE NEGRO DRANK BI G Jl'ICK AND DIK8 IN JAIL. Knds IIU Life Rather than Fare Trial for Infanticide.?Received Medical Attention. Alfred Poole, an aged negro prisoner confined to the county jail at Gaffney to await trial at the next | term of court, committed suicide by drinking bug killer in his cell last Friday night, dying from the effects about one o'clock. Poole was arrested about two weeks ago at Cowpens, charged with being an accomplice in the killing of a negro baby at his home near Cowpens. lie was about 50 years of age. It has been the custom of the Jailer to supply the prisoners with bug killer at intervals. When the disinfectant was given to Poole he saved it until night came, and th.m drank it, becoming paralyzed at once. Although there were two other prisoners in the same cell, both of them disclaim any knowledge of the taking of the juice and claim that they knew nothing about the affair until they became suspicious of his loud breathing. When they attempted to rouse him they found him dying. Medical assistance was summoned and although everything possible was done, Poole soon died. The evidence tended to show that the act had been contemplated for several days, as he had told his son Sam, who is confined in the jail as a witness to the murder of the infant, that he did not intend to live much longer. This was about three days before the act was committed. He seemed to be in fear of the outcome of bis trial for the murder of the infant. The coroner's inquest was held at the jail next morning and the jury decided that Alfred Poole came to his death by his own hands. The ir#-year-old girl who was implicated by the verdict of the coroner's jury with Poole is now in jail, awaiting trial. A XKW FIJIHK. Virginia Man Has One to Startle the World Claiming to have solved the secret ot' aerial navigation in a heavier than air aeroplane, R. R. Grant, of Norfolk, Va.., is ready to prove that -he can remain lip in the air under al kinds of weather conditions, barring a hurricane. Grant is the assistant city electrician of Norfolk, and for many months has been experimenting with his machine eariy in the morning when nearly everybody in the city was asleep. There has been various reports made rei: tive to peculiar lights seen overhead at such hours, but runny persons attributed them to imagination. A few weeks ago, Henry Hyslop, a newspaper route owner, reported that he heard a peculiar noise and saw a light in the air a few miles outside the city limits about three o'clock in the morning. His report was so plausible that an investigation was made and it was discovered that Grant, assisted by J. T. Morse, a mechanical expert had b> en experimenting with their machine and had mane some wondertul night.. Mr. Grant declares that lie believed that he and his co-worker have sneetded in solving aerial navigation in a different way from other navigators. They claim that their machine will remain in the air under all weather conditions barring of course, an unusually severe storm. ONLY A It I <11XI). Actors in Paris Kept Practicing For a Fake Play. To much realism in the rehearsals of a scene in a n* w play, "llanco," caused a police raid at a small theater in Paris recently. The play had been advertised IT some time hut the rehearsals draged on slow- 1 ly and ?. very evening seemed to he 1 levoted to Act II. The scene of this ict was laid in gambling saloon and M. Dnponnois a police sominissary, 1 ivlio happened to call in at the theat-j ' .?? Ki? I 11 /\ r> 1 4 mi/vei. 1 i r>i i urn ii> i uv: i ai i, /\ nuroion to the manager brought the re- i )ly. ' "It is most important that t.he facial play of all the actors in this jeene should he exact. They are supposed to represent keen Ram- 1 dors. We must Ret the by-play as 1 *eal as possible. t At the end of another fortnight, r towever, the facial play didn't seem i o have improved much, as Act 11 1 vns still rehearsed at great lengths 1 ?ach evening. 1 Discreet inquiry showed that the i ehearsals were a blind, that the i play, "Danco," had never been r vrltten, and that all the actors were ltirdened gamblers. Twelve Sawed to Freedom. , Twelve prisoners in the Federal j |?il at Moscogee, Okla., sawed their i A-ay to freedom last week. Five i >thers refused to g\>. < w A DESPERADO ? Kills AD WW Cmcs ii Raige ( Ballets aid Defies Arrest TWO VICTIMS FALL wit rviI. * __ *1? a a , ii.. a urrc wwrs /trv n uuuwu nuu mr j Governor is Asked for Troops to Storm House in Which the Desperado Has Six of His Cbridren With Him. Barricaded In his home In the western part of Irwin County, Ga., W. H. Ilostwick has resisted two attacks of officers which were made Sunday, killing two and wounding three others. He is a white man with a reputation for 'lighting proclivities and has threatened to kill everybody who comes in range of his bullets. The local authorities have asked Governor Brown for troops to storm the little house where the desperate man is hiding. The dead are. Chief of Police Stave Davis, of Ocilla. . Deputy Sheriff Sheffield, of Irwin county. The wounded are: Deputy Sheriff I. C. Bass, arm broken and shot in tho abdomen. Sheriff J. P. Mclnnis, slighly injured. Deputy Sheriff Wyatt Tucker, slightly injured. Lynching threats are heard and a crowd of men are forming that may not await the coming of the troops. Bostwick is well armed with rifle, shotgun and pistol and has a good supply of ammunition. In the house with him are six of his children. The first attack on Bostwick's fort was made at two o'clock Sun day afternoon. He was wanted on a misdemeanor charge and Sheriff McInnis with Chief Davis and Deputy Sheriffs Bass and Tucker went to arrest him. hen theWy came whithin close range of his house Bastwick opened fire'. Chief Davis fell dead and Bass was wounded. The officers removed the dead and wounded and summoned a posse from Ocilla and Irwinville and surrounded the house. Sheriff Mclnnis with Deputies Tucker and Sheffield led the onslaught and Bostwick killed ^Sheffield instantly and wounded the two others. He is still unharmed in his fort. The scene of the two battles is several miles from Ocilla, and information is hard to obtain. Gen. Scott, after a conference with Gov. Brown at Atlanta Sunday night decided to send the militaiy company at Fitzgerald to Irwin county, the scene of the battle between the sheriff's posse and W. H. Bostwick. FALLS INTO HOT MKTAL. He Was Slowly Consumed IMon? the Eyes of His Companions. John Mitchell, a steel worker at the West Pensylvania steel plant at Bracken ridge, was suddenly precipitated into a soaking pit containing a white hot ingot on June 23 and before his helpless mftil mates, the body yas consumed by the metal into w4iich it slowly sunk, Mitchell was at work at the soaking pits where the ingots were treated. Standing on the door of one which was covered, he gave the signal for opening of another pit. Through mistake the wrong lever was pulled and Mitchell fell IS ft. to the bottom of the pit, alighting on the ingot. ? ? TWO INSTANTLY KILLED. And Three Others Seriously Injured in Automobile Wreck. At Pittsburg, Pa., two persons were instantly killed, three soriously injured and two painfully hurt, when u large automobile was struck near Cliarleroi Sunday by a heavy surburban electric-car. The accident occurred at Heachwood Park crossing, about a mile south of Charleroi. The crossing is approached at a considerable down grade and it is believed that the driver misjudged the speed of the approaching trolley car. None of the passengers in the trolley were injured. ShoeHimself to Death. Cullen Pence, a native of South Whitley, Indiana, and for the past 15 years prominently identified with he fruit growing and trtiv.klu,r in- i lustry of Florida, committed suicide Sunday by shooting. His wife found lis dead body in t.he bath tub at their ionic, a pistol .ball through his jraln and his revolver on the floor nearby. Peace had been despondent 'or several months because of the condition of his health. i lloke Smith to linn. Former Governor Hoke Smith, vlio was defeated for reelection two rears ago by Joseph M. Hrowu announced in Atlanta Thursday that he tvould again be in the* race for gov- , jrnor. -vs. * STEAMER BURNED FIPTKKX HUXDKHI) IN DAXGMR; OSly THRKK LOS*. Details Concerning the Darning of Kx'carsioii Steamer on the Missis7 ttippi Itiver Saturday Night. Only three persons out of 1,3 Od \ ama ik ti.. rt . a,... ?- - - ?*..v * -- - 4v?t kuon livgo vyttcuiua; uti atcount of the burning in Mississippi river of the excursion steamer, J. 3., according to ofilcers or the Acme Packet company, owners of the vessel, at Lacrosse, Wis., after a careful search and rechecking of passengers. While five others were severely hurt in the panic and fifty others cut and bruised in escaping from the boat before it burned to the water, those who went through the experience of tire and water declare that the small number of casualties seem marvelous to . them. . Mrs. Kmma Randall, of New Albion, la., was the only one who broke through the guard on the edge of he docks. Twenty men had arms outstretched to grasp her when she plunged from the upper deck into the water and drowned. Her body has not been recovered. John Plane, of Waukon, la., was locked in the boat's brig in the hold for disorderly conduct, and in the excitement of the panic, no one thought to release him. His charred body is in the rivor with the hvllk of the steamer, which sank after the boat had burned to the water. An unidentified woman, while leaving the steamer, wa? drowned. Many thrilling stories of escape are told by the passengers, who all reached their homes Sunday, alter each had sought out friends aud relatives from the confusion ensuing after the tire, and the hasty landing on Had Axe Island, 25 miles south of Lacrosse, where the steamer w?s beached ten minutes after the fire started. It is said that a cigarette stub started the fiamea under a stairway, but nothing definite ha* been ascertained. BIG ALTO TOUR. ? The Sixth Content For the GLIdttan Trophy Is Now On. Good weather, good roads and hospitality of the best has been the good luck of the a utomobl lists' taking part in the seventh annual tour of the American Automobile Association, which is tho sixth contest for tho famous Glidden cup and the first for the Chicago trophies. Thte run, w.hich began at Ciuctnn >C. on Tuesday is the largest reliability test ever held in the United States, and in addition the rule? were more severe than in previous years. They embrace linal tests at the end of tho tour to show the condition of the brakes, transmission, etc. 'The 1910 tour will cover 2,85k miles, and the distance must be made in 16 days. The cat's will go as far South as Dallas, Texas, and then finish at Chicago. The Gllddenites will have ampl~ protection on the run as they are preceded by two "balloon destroy ing" automobiles. In addition two Cadilac roadsters, i>art of Hie military equipment of the Northwestern Military Academy, carrying guccapable of shooting 4 80 shots ? minute, are acting as ads ant e and rear gaurd for the tourists. Twenty-seven competing cars were lined up at the start, 15 for the Hliddctt trophy and twelve for the Chicago cups. In addition there are half a dozen cars for oillcials and newspapermen. Prisoner Finds a Fortune. William Hamilton, who disappear ed from his home in Pittsburg eight months ago and who later fell heir to a fortune, was discovered Thursday at the house of correction at Chicago. The setlement of the estate to which Hamilton is one of the heirs, has been delayed while the search for the missing man was being prosecuted. The first trace was found in the records of the municipal court which showed that he was sentenced on May 28 to serve GO days for disorderly conduct. Mayor IIuse will be asked to pardon the prisoner, whose health has been restored and w.ho was so much elated at the news of his uood fortune Pined For Detailing. In the recorder's report Friday Judge Sykes fined Mrs. K. A. Carrington, of Durham, N. C., whose> husband skipped in the midst of a retailing case, $50 and costs for th? same offense, later reducing it half. Mrs. Carringlon is twice Carrington's wife, the two celebrating their honeymoon w.hon Carrington completed his sentence on the roads for retailing last fall. Severe Sentence. The up-country Is not only part of the world whre the illegal sale of whiskey is punished. In Sumter a man. Hill Duttou, is serving a 3 months' sentence for just offering a drink to a customer, according to Dntton's statementat the tnai. Tiie prohibition law makes this a misdemeanor. -1 i